Hailey Gibbs

Hailey is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek of the Temple Infant and Child Laboratory on the expansion of Playful Learning Landscapes and related research with national and international collaborators.

She received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Quantitative Methodology from the University of Maryland College Park under the supervision of Dr. Lucas Payne Butler. Hailey is interested in the role that questions play in children’s interactions with peers and caregivers, their understanding of the relation between evidence and knowledge-building, and the features of learning environments that best support children’s scientific literacy and critical thinking. Hailey has presented her work at several national and international academic conferences in early child and cognitive development, and is an author on published works in the Journal of Experimental. Child Psychology (2018), Cognitive Development (2020), and Child Development (2020).

Her work is also broadly motivated by the goal of translating scientific practice for broader application.